buppie
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 12
- Words With Friends
- 16
- Letters
- 6
Definition of buppie
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
-
(US, slang)A black urban professional; an African-American professional or executive in their late twenties or early thirties.
“In Spike Lee’s story of interracial romance, Jungle Fever (June), Wesley Snipes plays a young buppie New York architect whose affair with his Italian-American secretary (Annabella Sciorra) threatens his marriage and her relationship to her family.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Blend of black + yuppie or an abbreviation of black urban professional, modelled on yuppie (“young urban professional”).
Words you can make from buppie
13 playable · top: PIPE (8 pts)
Best play pipe 8 points4-letter words
1 word3-letter words
6 words2-letter words
5 wordsHooks
1 extension · 1 back
A single letter you can add to buppie to make another valid word.
Back
Find your best play with buppie
See every word you can make from a set of letters that includes buppie, or browse word lists you can mine for high-scoring plays.